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2020 Faribault County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Faribault County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,425 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2893rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Faribault County, 2020
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 12, 2020 18:15 | June 12, 2020 19:45 | 1h 30m | 420 | 114 |
| 2 | December 9, 2020 21:30 | December 9, 2020 23:15 | 1h 45m | 404 | 707 |
| 3 | November 14, 2020 08:45 | November 14, 2020 16:45 | 8h | 62 | 488 |
| 4 | December 23, 2020 22:15 | December 24, 2020 02:30 | 4h 15m | 17 | 72 |
| 5 | July 11, 2020 21:15 | July 12, 2020 03:45 | 6h 30m | 5 | 33 |
| 6 | August 10, 2020 15:45 | August 10, 2020 17:45 | 2h | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | September 3, 2020 16:15 | September 3, 2020 16:30 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
| 8 | September 20, 2020 16:00 | September 21, 2020 00:15 | 8h 15m | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | November 29, 2020 13:30 | November 29, 2020 15:45 | 2h 15m | 1 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 2 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Faribault County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.14 | 2.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 2.32 | 3.3 hrs | 2.22 |
| Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric | 2020 | 81 min | 0.80 | 54 min | 0.56 |
| Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 1.25 | 62 min | 0.71 |
| Blue Earth Light & Water | 2018 | 1 min | 0.03 | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wells - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,867 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Faribault County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Faribault County, MN annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/minnesota/faribault-county